First published: Thu Apr 19 2018(Updated: )
USN-3628-1 fixed a vulnerability in OpenSSL. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya, Billy Brumley, Cesar Pereida Garcia and Luis Manuel Alvarez Tapia discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled RSA key generation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cache-timing attack and recover private RSA keys.
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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All of | ||
ubuntu/libssl1.0.0 | <1.0.1-4ubuntu5.41 | 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.41 |
Ubuntu OpenSSH Client | =12.04 |
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The vulnerability ID for this OpenSSL vulnerability is CVE-2018-0737.
The severity of CVE-2018-0737 is high.
Ubuntu 12.04 is affected by this vulnerability.
The recommended remedy for this vulnerability is to update the libssl1.0.0 package to version 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.41.
More information about this vulnerability can be found at the following references: [USN-3628-1](https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3628-1) and [USN-3692-1](https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3692-1).